won the week two. all in with chris hayes starts now. l in with chris hayes starts now. good evening from new york. i m chris. hayes i want to get ahead of the story. it appears this long week may be coming to a close and more ways than one. if grading on a curve, strong curve, would be speaker of the house kevin mccarthy had his best day yet today. i should say he still lost two more rounds of votes. he did manage to win over most of his detractors, including some previous hard-liners. and, for the first time, he actually won more votes in the democratic challenger, hakeem jeffries. so, clap. negotiations are still underway. they are adjourned right now when they reconvene just two short hours from now, mccarthy may finally become speaker of the house. they seem confident that is the case. we will see. but based on everything we ve seen, it s obvious, even if mccarthy does clinched the gavel, it will be a victory. this will leave him the weakest speaker in modern polit
prepares to reconvene for its seventh hearing into the attack on the capitol today. focusing on the extremist groups that led the attack. how the committee plans to tie the far right militias to the trump white house. boy, mika, as we look at the united states capitol, which, of course so beautiful. was besieged by terrorists on january 6th. if you call people who try to take something over and brutalize cops and try to destroy american democracy terrorists, i guess it s all a definitional thing. you re really starting to see the impact of these investigations, not just the january 6th investigation, but we re going to be talking this morning about what s going on in georgia. lindsey graham has tried to escape a subpoena because the secretary of state in georgia said they re republicans. secretary of state said his fellow republican lindsey graham called and tried to get him to throw out legal ballots. graham is trying to get out of that. of course he wants to esc
of a shared public good that could be put into practice through governing. here s the other thing about it, it s not good politics. it s clear the voters don t like it. they rejected this kind of politics in 2018 in 2020. and most remarkably, especially in 2022, winter mcgrath made appeals for democracy against margaret stream-ism a key component of their election strategy. many candidates who embrace this kind of coup sympathizing troll populism. at least the ones who aren t gerrymandered lost. and often, they ran reliably well behind more conventional republicans. but because of structural advantages and the reality of gravity, republicans still merit managed to narrowly flip the house by the thinnest of margins. which is now where in the current predicament. the most extreme are the key leverage points within this party. they control the party s fate. in order to win, kevin mccarthy has spent the week giving them
points. you re seeing snapshots inside the states where some voters are starting to say, this candidate, now that he s been nominated, is too extreme compared to what i m seeing on the democratic side. yeah, no doubt about it. of course, the washington post has written about this, republicans having concerns about their concerns of retaking the senate. this is what is important, and what i have to say, mika, is the most positive political climate for any party, republicans should be rolling up massive victories this fall, perhaps they will. i still think they re going to win in the house. but they re making it so much harder in the senate and in the governor races that aren t gerrymandered. that is, of course, only in the house. and you see it. the further you get away from the gerrymandered house races, the harder it becomes for